The Great and the Good

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This jolly gathering of the Great and the Good is celebrating the award of the 2014 Grote Reber medal to Ron Ekers during the recent General Assembly of the URSI(*) in Beijing. This highly prestigious prize is awarded by the Grote Reber Foundation, normally annually, to individuals of any nationality or country of residence, for outstanding and innovative contributions to radio astronomy.

NB: If you are a radio astronomer, and do not know everyone around this table, you are not ambitious enough. And if they do not know you, you are not (yet) important enough.

(*) Radio astronomy is part of the International Radio Science Union (URSI) because the field was started by radar engineers, which slowed its acceptance by "real" astronomers into the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Until the Nobel prizes started rolling in...